Also implicated in a separate case is the driver of another labor attache for acts of lasciviousness against an OFW who was temporarily hired as a janitress of the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) in Saudi Arabia.

In his protracted denunciation of Zola as a degenerate artist, Nordau specifically mentions the lasciviousness portrayed in Nana in support of his claim that Zola's bestselling novels owe "their success [only] to the lowest instincts of the masses, [and] to its brutish passion for the sight of crime and voluptuousness" (1993, 504).

It is this image that has become synonymous with a past of sexual exploitation and lasciviousness, and likewise, that has presented opportunity for ruminating on the phenomenon of young black women playing the roles of "video vixen" or "ghetto chicks.

I do understand the deeply partisan attitudes that this generation is sparring against and trying to win over to its side, for its very survival depends upon sustaining the attention of an audience incessantly cannonaded by the insipid valorization of inane images swelling with lasciviousness and hollow promises of instant gratification.

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